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Turning up the heat : Global warming and the degradation of Canada's boreal forests

7 Apr 2008

Greenpeace Turning Up the Heat: Global Warming and the Degradation of Canada’s Boreal Forest These disruptions, combined with other predicted problems, could lead Intact areas of the Boreal Forest are helping to die-offs in species already at risk, including the woodland caribou, the to mitigate global warming wolverine, and the American marten. [...] This new report is based in part on a comprehensive review of scientific literature by researchers at the University of Toronto42 and therefore reflects In 1994, Greenpeace published a report titled The Carbon Bomb: Global the most current state of knowledge on the relationship between global Warming and the Fate of the Northern Boreal Forests, which called on policy warming and the Boreal Forest. [...] We urge government and industry decision- and decision makers to “radically rethink and change energy policies and makers in Canada and abroad to consider its findings seriously, and to take logging practices in boreal forest countries in order to protect and preserve the immediate action necessary to protect the forest and the climate. [...] The area of forest lost to insects in the Boreal is carbon stocks in logged forests to return to area of the Boreal is under license to up to eight times greater than the area burned pre-logging levels 59, 60. [...] Greenpeace Turning Up the Heat: Global Warming and the Degradation of Canada’s Boreal Forest Canada’s Boreal Forest Canada’s Boreal Forest stretches across the country, from the Yukon Territory in the west to the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the east.
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Authors

Ferguson, Christy

ISBN
0973233761
Pages
58
Published in
Canada

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